Handling behind the scene action and lets you focus on your business
December 08, 2020

Handling behind the scene action and lets you focus on your business

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with IBM Power System Virtual Server

  1. IBM Power [Systems Virtual Server is] everything you need to rest assure your case of powerful infra always keeping your systems up and running. We use IBM Power Systems Virtual Servers to tackle emergency power failures, network outages which after onboarding our apps with IBM's [Power System] Virtual Server has been nil.
  2. What started as a region wise setup is now almost a company wide backbone in IBM's [Power System] Virtual Servers.
  3. We feel we have a reliable and secure cloud server on which our apps are running with utmost support through IBM's capabilities.
  • Scalable
  • Ability to bring up the network after installation is really short and thus favorable
  • Security
  • Time to time updates in background
  • Timely notification to users about Do's and Don'ts
  • Easy to acclimatize and use features
  • High cost not sure how small and medium enterprise can use IBM's Virtual server after one year of bonus offers as everyone needs a cloud server they might look at competitors with lower costs
  • Scope of automation is huge
  • Limitation on firewall groups based on type and cost of license

Do you think IBM Power Virtual Server delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with IBM Power Virtual Server's feature set?

Yes

Did IBM Power Virtual Server live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of IBM Power Virtual Server go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy IBM Power Virtual Server again?

Yes

  • Max uptime guaranteed
  • Support all of our network configurations
  • Limited security rules we could place in addition to already build in or purchase templates
All the options we considered were expensive when it comes to having dedicated server for any system. Thus we chose IBM where we could have maximum support over a shared DNS server for various types of Clusters. All of our clusters have been supported on IBM's PS VS. IBM's backup storage is also very competitive and performance of its computation capabilities was the deal clincher.
IBM's name itself is reliable. [The IBM Power Systems Virtual Server] offering is a powerful business enabler and offers stable and secure environment to run multiple servers to let apps interact and make data transactions with security and minimal threat. The computing power provided by IBM's [Power Systems] Virtual Server is fast enough for various data transactions in real time.

IBM Power Virtual Server Feature Ratings

Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime
9
Dynamic scaling
9
Elastic load balancing
10
Pre-configured templates
10
Monitoring tools
9
Pre-defined machine images
6
Operating system support
8
Security controls
7